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Updated: 10:39 AM EDT May 4, 2017

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The Baltimore City's State's Attorney's Office is taking a new approach on cases involving immigrant defendants, witnesses and victims.Download the WBAL app
State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has instructed prosecutors to use "prosecutorial discretion" when handling minor, nonviolent cases involving immigrants.
Mosby said prosecutors need to consider the unintended consequences that their decisions have on the immigrant population.
"As the current administration in Washington continues to increase its efforts to enforce immigration laws, we as prosecutors are the torch bearers of justice in this city, thereby we must utilize our prosecutorial discretion as we do in every case by considering the unintended collateral consequences that our decisions have on our immigrant population," Mosby said in a statement.
She also made it clear that the cases to which she is referring are ones like trespassing, loitering, minor drug possession and petty theft.Also on WBALTV.com:

BALTIMORE —

The Baltimore City's State's Attorney's Office is taking a new approach on cases involving immigrant defendants, witnesses and victims.

Mosby said prosecutors need to consider the unintended consequences that their decisions have on the immigrant population.

"As the current administration in Washington continues to increase its efforts to enforce immigration laws, we as prosecutors are the torch bearers of justice in this city, thereby we must utilize our prosecutorial discretion as we do in every case by considering the unintended collateral consequences that our decisions have on our immigrant population," Mosby said in a statement.

She also made it clear that the cases to which she is referring are ones like trespassing, loitering, minor drug possession and petty theft.